Thread: I can remember when..........

Practical jokes during school years, mostly boarding school -

Chewing up a bit of blotting paper into a ball, then soaking in the ink well before flicking from the end of the ruler at the back of the teacher's head while he/she was writing on the blackboard.

Vegemite on the black dunny seats.

Glad-wrap stretched across the dunny bowls (especially in the girls' dunny).

Carpet Pythons left in the girls' dunny.

Smoke bombs made from ping pong balls and the foil out of your empty cigarette packet.

"Touch" explosive made from nail varnish remover and ground up iodine crystal.

I can remember being paid on the pay day before 30 June, getting your Group Certificate the following day, filling out the Tax Form of 3 pages - the last page was just tables and getting your refund in the first week of July. This was before computers.
Our boss had an old ex lawyer mate who would drop in and see him occasionally and he still wore a wing collar.
Going to the Flinders Street Railway station on a Friday by Flinders Lane amongst the Herald paperboys was one selling the Communist paper. Never saw him make a sale but he did it for years.
Counter lunches at those small hotels now all gone, would cost 4 bob.
The 6 o'clock swill, talk about a drinking frenzy!
The families with the kids in their pyjamas watching TV in the electrical stores from the street.
Going to school and catching a bus into the city by yourself.
Listening to Biggles, Inspector West, the Argonauts, Superman on the radio.
Making your own radio and using a cats whisker (and quartz crystal?) to find a radio station.

Originally Posted by LSBob

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Making your own radio and using a cats whisker (and quartz crystal?) to find a radio station.

Galena - lead sulphide.

John

Originally Posted by jx2mad

I was at Coff's Harbour High from 58-60. Used to have sport swimming in the creek.

Yes, and because it was tidal, we didn't have records at the swimming carnival and the diving event had to be scheduled for high tide. Even so I came up from a dive once with scratches on my chest from the shells on the bottom.

Did you dig holes in the sand on the other side of the creek and stick First Formers in buried up to their necks when the tide was coming in?

Originally Posted by vnx205

Did you dig holes in the sand on the other side of the creek and stick First Formers in buried up to their necks when the tide was coming in?

Hahaha - geez, and I thought we were little mongrels where I went to school

I can remember when there were no speed limits on most roads outside built up areas in NSW. Unrestricted didn't just refer to a Sydney taxi licence.